ASEAN Calling : Development of India's North-East through Sub-regional Cooperation

Authorship
Description

Editors: Ujjwal Kanti Paul, Gurudas Das and C. Joshua Thomas.

Bibliographical
Details

xx, 228 p. ills. maps. 24 cm.

Edition,
Place & Publisher

1st ed. New Delhi, Pentagon Press.

ISBN-10

9386618028

ISBN-13

9789386618023, 978-9386618023

Year
of Publication

2017.

Price

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KK-134554

"This book deals with the prospect and potential of development of India's
North-Eastern Region (NER) through sub-regional cooperation with the neighbouring members
of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Although landlockedness has long
sturted the economic growth of NER, with ASEAN-India as well as India-Bangladesh
connectivity projects gathering pace, the silver lining is appearing on the horizon. The
completion of India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) Trilateral Highway connecting Moreh (Manipur)
with Mae Sat (Thailand) across Myanmar will land-link the region with the ASEAN countries.
Further extension of the Highway till Vietnam and Cambodia, as is being envisaged, will
take the north-eastern region even closer to the ASEAN. Likewise, India is extending
railways to Manipur which will eventually be connected with the rail network of Myanmar as
a part of the Asian Development Bank's Trans-Asian Railway project. Besides, the Kaladan
Multi-Mortal Transit Transportation Project (KMTTP) will open up maritime route for the
north-eastern region by connecting India's eastern ports with the Sittwe port in Myanmar.
Again, Sitwe port will be connected with the riverine port of Paletwa an Kaladan river
from where Lawngtai in Mizoram will be connected by road.

With the connectivity problem about to be resolved, in what ways would the
north-eastern region engage with her South East Asian neighbours? What are the rodes of
sub-regional cooperation that can benefit both NER and ASEAN? How can we enumerate and
stategize the potential strengh of the region which she can after to her neighbours and
dentify the essential requirements that she can pick up from them? What role the other
stakeholders (state and non-state actors) can play in synchonizing domestic economic
initiatives in true with the needs of the markets in neighbouring countries? How to map
the various acivity-, product-, service-, specific strengths of the different states in
the region for which there are demands across the borders? Which cross-border as a
conceptual apparatus for bridgability rather than a dividing entity of people on either
side? How can the community bording be used to promote a uniform social space in a group
which is territorialy divided?"
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